Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin), Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 87 leaves only (including Calendar) imperfect at end, in a lettre batarde, 27 lines, in brown and red ink, 3 full-page miniatures and 12 small miniatures, (small miniatures in panels in lower margins), numerous 4,3,2 & single-line initials, line fillers, 15pp. with full margins and 124pp. partial margins, margins decorated with drolleries, animals, flowers and fruits, all illuminated in gold, red, blue and other colours, indeterminate old ink foliation, modern pencil foliation in 8's, f. 1 several holes in text, f.2 small hole, f. 61 to f. 87 staining in upper margins getting progressively worse and worn with holes from f. 71 to end repaired in vellum but with loss to last 5ff., last 9ff. (including f. 84 & 85 prayers in a different but contemporary hand) stained and torn and repaired with large loss, ff. 86 & 87 ruled in red but blank, miniatures and other decorations with some surface wear and small loss in places, some show through from decoration due to damp, margins trimmed with slight loss of decoration, old bookseller's description on front pastedown, later paper endpapers, loose in 19th century morocco, gilt, 8vo (151 x 109mm.), [France, probably Paris], [c. 1470].*** Full-page miniatures:(1). The Annunciation, arched miniature with a full border of 6 panels depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin, surface wear with small loss.(2). Bathsheba Bathing, miniature depicting Bathsheba, with long golden hair, standing naked in a gold fountain in the garden of a castle with King David observing her with two attendants, in the background a town with many towers.(3). Job on the dunghill, with his richly dressed friends and in the background his ruined house.Provenance: (1). Miss M.M. Norton, [c. 1890].(2). Morphet & Morphet, Auctioneers, Harrogate, Sale, 7 November 1976.